Leah's week ten

One thing I have found out this week: I do my best work in the few minutes after class has finished. On Tuesday, after doing spending all day taking apart a pomegranate and trying to see how it was organized, I had my talk with John. At the very end of talking, he told me to try pressing the beats into paper instead of chopping them up and making dye. So after class I experimented with this for a few minutes (which turned into an hour and a half). The results were INCREDIBLE! You can clearly see the veins in the beat leaves, and I pressed a whole beat as well. I discovered that a rolling pin works well, and fabric actually works better than paper. I'm now playing around with embroidering them.

On Thursday, it was proved yet again that my best work is done after class. I had been putzing around all day, rather slowing, (but I was enjoying it!). Then when Regan told me to hang up everything I considered a drawing, I quickly went through my pile of grounds, and stuck my stickers down. 70% of my work was done in ten minutes.

I'm really trying to keep drawing and theme sequence separate for now, because I think I'll be more productive if I do two projects. It's working right now.

High for this week: beating beats.
Low for this week: trying to make a mold for my little saints, but it definitely didn't work, and I realized why I had shown off plaster in 3D. Such a mess! (and I'm not afraid of messes.)

Also: I discovered that I'm a post-postmodernist this week, and here's a website that people might be interested in.

Precosious Cats

So this week has been good if a bit fast moving in the ideas evolution part. On tuesday I decided the books would be part of my final project and came up with this elaborate plan of a walking library wich turned into an infinity of books just like in ones mind are an infinity of thoughts but after talking to John decided to make an ilusion of an infinate number of books (ie actualy possible) instead. I loved this idea especialy as it deals with my love for infinity and mirrors. I was still working out how to have some readable though and dibating if I wanted to give many of the books away as part of it. I had that almost compleatly worked out. Then I talked to regan and it died. She talked about making my paper flapper dress with the books and each tassle being a book. Me, realizing that was a nearly infinate number of actual books, freaked out. I went running and then realized dude its just a sugestion. I dont have to follow it. I can take from it what I want. As it was, the many book idea I did not like because I felt it would be too crafty and buisy. The eachstrand special and using found grounds idea I do like though. Oh futher consideration ther are ways to do this and still look sheek. (PS there is an AMAZING) art exibition wit hpaper remakes of actual court dresses and clothers all to sdize and detail . They are AMAZING! Note I need to tell Regan sory about freeking and snapping. I got defensive with my work. She is hear to help. She is not telling me what to do. I do not need to attack her.period.
So rorry Regan if you read this.
Anyway now for what I am doing. I realized that it is important for me to get this out of my syster and that i need to finnish my intermidiat steps(id my frirst idea projects in order toi move on efectivly from them) so I have made enough books to ring the standard gallery room depending on how I space them (messured it out), or to efectivly fill the mirrored box of infinity. I also (hopefully by tonight) will finish that white flapper dress with signitutres that I started. Even though it will not be the final I think its mechanics are still an important step in my project and it is not a step that I can /should skip over just because conseptualy I may be past it. Getting stuf done is important to me and I need to know that I can finnish something.

Anyway I will be editing this likely tomorrow or sun / adding pics but choue 4 now.
the Precosious Cat

Maramac progresses. Muscle by muscle.

Theme sequence progress will hopefully accelerate once I've completed Mucha's cutout—I was working at a snail's pace, having to simultaneously reconstruct the pieces on drawing paper as a "negative" image. A day or two ago I lost interest in that particular side-project, deciding it took too much time and was visually less interesting than I anticipated. Since then progress has zipped along, so I should be able to play with the product within the next day, for once actually having a "work of art" to show for next Thursday. Crossing my fingers that the preparation was worth it (funnily enough, I first thought the finished cutout itself would be the work, but over time it's turned out to be merely step one).

Upcoming photos this weekend.


Update: Here are the photos to some of my work from this past week, including from the drawing portion of class, the running theme appearing to be cutouts. Also a couple photos of my finished Mucha cutout, under different lighting circumstances (and the last is a photoshop paintover, to preview the effect if I applied acrylic to it).